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Mar. 31, 2015 — Alcoholism takes a toll on every aspect of a person's life, including skin problems. Now, a new research report helps explain why this happens and what might be done to address it. "The clinical ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — A new population of 'memory' immune cells has been discovered by scientists, throwing light on what the body does when it sees a microbe for the second time. This insight, and others like it, will ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — During prenatal development, the brains of most animals, including humans, develop specifically male or female characteristics. But scientists have known little about the details of how this ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — New research has scientists re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. The study hints at a new approach to therapy for Candida albicans, one of the most common causes of ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — A unique pattern of immune molecules in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have been discovered, providing insights into the basis for cognitive ... full story

Mar. 30, 2015 — The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invaders and dissenters. But it turns out the immune system has traitors amongst ... full story

Mar. 30, 2015 — Researchers have discovered that potentially aggressive T-cells that might lead to auto-immune disease can instead be enlisted to help "police" over-active immune responses, via the molecule CD5. ... full story

Mar. 27, 2015 — Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer globally and the second most common cause of cancer deaths. The chance of a cure is high if the cancer is detected early enough, but early ... full story

Mar. 26, 2015 — Researchers found an unexpected diversity of protein coats within populations of <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>, challenging the conventional understanding of the dynamics that allow the parasite to ... full story

Mar. 26, 2015 — A new tissue culture model using human white blood cells shows how people with a latent -- or symptom-free -- tuberculosis infection are protected from active disease by a critical early step in ... full story

Injectable 3D Cell Factories to Fight Cancer in the Body

Reuters - Innovations Video Online (Feb. 3, 2015) — Researchers at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute are developing an injectable biomaterial that forms a tiny scaffold in the body which can be used to re-program cells and trigger an immune response to fight cancer and infectious diseases. Ben Gruber Reports.
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Mar. 31, 2015 — Alcoholism takes a toll on every aspect of a person's life, including skin problems. Now, a new research report helps explain why this happens and what might be done to address it. "The ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — A new population of 'memory' immune cells has been discovered by scientists, throwing light on what the body does when it sees a microbe for the second time. This insight, and others like ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — During prenatal development, the brains of most animals, including humans, develop specifically male or female characteristics. But scientists have known little about the details of how this ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — New research has scientists re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. The study hints at a new approach to therapy for Candida albicans, one of the most common causes of ... full story

Mar. 31, 2015 — A unique pattern of immune molecules in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome have been discovered, providing insights into the basis for cognitive ... full story

Mar. 30, 2015 — The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invaders and dissenters. But it turns out the immune system has traitors amongst ... full story

Mar. 30, 2015 — Researchers have discovered that potentially aggressive T-cells that might lead to auto-immune disease can instead be enlisted to help "police" over-active immune responses, via the ... full story

Mar. 27, 2015 — Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer globally and the second most common cause of cancer deaths. The chance of a cure is high if the cancer is detected early enough, but early ... full story

Mar. 26, 2015 — Researchers found an unexpected diversity of protein coats within populations of <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>, challenging the conventional understanding of the dynamics that allow the ... full story

Mar. 26, 2015 — A new tissue culture model using human white blood cells shows how people with a latent -- or symptom-free -- tuberculosis infection are protected from active disease by a critical early step in ... full story

Mar. 26, 2015 — An imbalance in our metabolism can trigger inflammatory processes in the body and activate the immune system. In a recent study, researchers have been able to show that this applies even to newborns ... full story

Mar. 25, 2015 — Hepatitis B Virus Infection exposure increases the immune system maturation of infants, which may give a better survival advantage to counteract bacterial infection during early life, a new study ... full story

Mar. 25, 2015 — Medical researchers now have the results from the first phase 1 trial of an Ebola vaccine based on the current (2014) strain of the virus. Until now, all tested Ebola virus vaccines have been based ... full story

Mar. 24, 2015 — The body's ability to clear an infection by the cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV) may be largely due to unpredictable division patterns in HPV-infected stem cells, rather than the ... full story

Mar. 24, 2015 — A biomarker that will help lead to better predictions of the success of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients has been discovered by researchers. This discovery could lead to better treatment ... full story

Mar. 24, 2015 — A multivalent candidate vaccine elicits broad antibody responses to a range of norovirus strains, including strains not included in the vaccine or previously encountered by participants, according to ... full story

Mar. 24, 2015 — A new approach to treating B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has been uncovered by researchers. B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, or B-ALL, is the most common tumor disease in children and ... full story

Mar. 23, 2015 — Stem cells can generate any type of cell in the body, but they are inactive most of the time—and for good reason. When stem cells become too active and divide too often, they risk acquiring cell ... full story

Mar. 23, 2015 — Key molecules that trigger the immune system to launch an attack on the bacterium that causes tularemia have been discovered by researchers. Tularemia is a highly infectious disease that kills more ... full story

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